Combined dry-room conveyer.



W. BARTHOLOMEW. COMBINED DRY Room commun.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 8, 1909.

@@sglo r Patented N0v..23,19o9.

STATES PATENTOFFICE "WILLIAIVIl BARTHOLOMEW, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOISQASSIGNOR TO TROY AUNIDRY MACHINERY COMPANY, LTD., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION F NEW YORK.

COMBINED DRY-nocivi CNVEYER.

specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov. 23. 1909.

Application filed March 8, 1909. ySerial No, 482,131.

To all twhom t may concern:

Be it known that l, VILLIAM BARTHoLo MEW, citizen `of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and Statev of Illinois, have invented certain new and'use ful Improvements in CombinedDry-Room Convcyers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

. This invention relates to a combined dry s room conveyer, and particularly to a device thus avoiding the necessity of assorting the goods upon their delivery from the `dry A further object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of goods retaining jaws comprising a fixed jaw and a cooperating spring held jaw adapted to be engaged with the surface` of an inclined releasing device for the purpose' of deliver-r ing the goods held by the jaws, said releasing'device also being arranged to prevent lateral movement of the carrier during itsv action upon the jaw. t

Other and further objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter fully set forth and the novel vfeatures thereof defined by the appended claims. In the drawing z-Figure 1 is a side eleva- 4 tion showing thenconyeyer provided with a plurality of goods carriers; Fig."[2 is a Vertical sectioned -line 2 2, Fig. 1 Fig. 3

is an enlarged section .on line '3-8, Fig. 2;

Fig. '4 isa section on line 4 4, Fig. 1; Fig.

v5 is a similar View on line 5`-5, Fig. 41. v v

The numeral designates .the conveyer which may 4.be of any ,desired construction or configuration, and is shown as comprising `a chain 'suspended by han ers, 11 'from wheels 12 traveling i uon the tracker wa'y 13 supported 1n an esiredv nanneiyDe-i pending from this conveyer is av series 'of vde\`1"ice` `20. j i v .Another-form ofI associated f carri'cr 31`is shown in Figi I5 and' comprises holding pins A"adapted to coperate lwith thest-ripper subits relea-sing'meniber disposed for operation at a point dilerent from that of another car-` riei" upon the same cOnVeyer. For the purpose 'of illustration, the conveyer is shown provided with a 'carrier 14 of desirable construction. The carrier is `formed at lower portion with the cross bai-'15 y'having at its outer end a fixed jaw 16. Cooperating with the jaw 16 is the movable 17 pivotally mounted at 18 and normally held in contact with the aw by a tension spring, for instance, as shown at 19 in order to grip and retain the goods between the jaws. By a pressure applied to the'upper Aportion of these jaws by hand or otherwise the. goods may be introduced or released, andthe ten-` sion of the jaws is such Vthat the goods may also be placed therein by simply pushing the goods carriers which also may be of any pre- Yferred construction, but each arranged withy its same between the jaws which yield to re-- Y ceive the goods. For the purpose of auto! matically moving the spring held jaw 17, a

fixed position by. the hanger 21 from the trackor way. This device has an inclined face 38 adapted to.coperate with the inner face of the spring held jaw at its upper end and force it toward the liXed jaw, as shown by dotted lines in' Fig. 2, thus releasing the goods held-by the jaws.' The opposite face 22 of thisy device is preferably straight and lreleasing .device 20 is provided and held in J contacts with the body of the carrier 14 in order to prevent lateral displacement thereof when pressure-is applied to the spring held jaw. Y

Associated with the carrier 14 is a carrier 23 of substantiallyfthe construction disclosed in myapplication for patent Serial No. 471,670. This forni of carrier shown in Fig. 4 and comprises generally a fixed gripping face 24 mounted upon the cross 'bar 25 `thereof and a .pivoted leverj 26-carried by said bar and haVinO' a cooperating gripping face 27. The uppetiend 28 o'ffthis lever is adapted to coperate'avith 'the' inclined face of` theV releasing device"`29 carried by the hanger 30. This releasing device is dis osed "in a diierent'planefrom the releasii 20 to Aoperate onlyl upon lthe l lever lever will'not' v evice' which: operated k the 'releasing a guide plate 34, while its projection strikes the upper end 35 of the pivotally mounted stripper 36 so that its lower end 37 swings upward, as shown by dotted lines, lifting the goods from the pins of the carrier. This releasing device is ,disposed in a diierent plane relative to theaconveyer from those heretofore described and operates only upon the carrier having its goods arranged to cooperate therewithY It will be seen that in the operation of the invention diiiierent classes or characters of goods to be dried are supported by the dierent hangers each tot which eii'ects its delivery only in cooperation with the releasing device mounted for that purpose, thus permitting the use of a conveyer for retaining various kinds of goods and insuring their automatic delivery 'at different points thus avoiding the necessity of sorting or rearrang ing the goods as is necessary Where all classes oi' goods are delivered at a single point from the dry room conveyor.

' While three different types of carriers are here shown it will be obvious thati a greater number may be used if desirable, and also that dilierent characters of lcarriers from those disclosed may be used, it only being essential that the releasing or delivering devices shall be so disposed as to operate upon one setof carriers without aecting any of the remaining carriers upon the conveyor. The carriers are here shown disposed to cooperate with releasing devices mounted at ditl'erent distances from the conveyor and the length of the carriers is therefore dii'i'erent to eti'ect cooperation with the releasing device. The form ot goods retaining jaws provides a very simple and economical construction into which the goods may be readily introduced and from which they are automatically discharged by the inclined face of the releasing device, which device also by its engagement with the carrier pre- 'vents lateral displacement thereof due to pressure applied to the jaw. l

Having describedl my invention and set 'forth its merits, whatv I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. A dry room conveyer arranged to travel in thel same horizontal plane throughout its path and provided with a series of downwardly disposed goods supporting devices arranged in a. common operative vertical plane and in relatively ditl'erent horizontal planes from that of the patlrof the conveyer, and a serios of goods releasing devices arranged in different horizontal planes and cooperating only with the supporting device orosei in the same horizontal plane with said releasing device -to automatically cause lthe delivery of goods therefrom.

2. Adry room conveyer'jarranged to travel in the same horizontal ylane throughout its path and provided wit a series of downwardly disposed 'having movable re easing members disposed oods supporting devices in the same operative 'vertical plane and in relatively ditierent horizontal pianos from that of the path of the conveyor, and a series of goods releasing devices arranged in diferent horizontal planes to engage said mem- 'i ber of the supporting devices which is dis-- posed in the same horizontal piane with the releasing device.

3. The combination with atraveiing con-- veyerdisposed in the same horizontal lane throughout its path, of a plurality of own-fA wardly discharging goods support Asdisposed in a common vertical plane and in dierent horizontal planes relative to the path of the between thehanger and movable jaw andl having a face to contact with said hanger i and an inclined face to move said jaw.

5. In a conveyer, a carrier provided with a hanger having a xed jaw and a coperatmg spring held jaw, and relatively fixed means adapted to enter between said hanger and spring jaw and having an inclined surface to engage and move said spring jaw and an opposite straight face to contact with the hanger of said carrier. y

6. In a conveyor, a carrier providedjwith a hanger having at its lowerportion a cross bar,-a lixed jaw mounted upon the outer end of said bar, a pivoted jaw mounted to cooperate With said fixed jaw, and a spring for retaining said jaws in cont-act.

7. In a conveyer, a carrier provided with a hanger having at its lower portion a cross bar, a fixedv jaw mounted upon the outer end of saidbar, a` pivoted jaw mounted to cooperate with said fixed jaw, a spring for retaining said jaws in contact, and a releasing plate disposed to engage v,said hanger and having an inclined outer face to contact with said pivoted jaw.

In testimony whereof I atiix my signature in presence of two witnesses. Y i

WILLIAM BARTHOLGMEW. Witnesses: WM. KnooMAN,

J Nod HOERMANN. 

